Context: Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is essential for identifying a surgically curable form of primary aldosteronism (PA), but accurate placement of the sampling catheter is technically challenging. Intraprocedural cortisol measurement can confirm the catheter's position, thereby increasing the AVS success rate.
Objective And Methods: We developed a quick cortisol assay (QCA) that uses immunochromatography and gold nanoparticles and can be performed either semiquantitatively or quantitatively. The assay was evaluated in two studies. In a single-center study, PA patients were assigned to undergo AVS incorporating the semiquantitative QCA (n = 30), the quantitative QCA (n = 30), or without the QCA (n = 30), and the rates of successful AVS were determined. In a prospective multicenter randomized, controlled study, the success rates of AVS performed with (n = 148) or without (n = 145) the semiquantitative QCA were determined.
Results: Cortisol concentrations were measured during AVS in 6 minutes or less in the radiology suite, without additional technical assistance, and significantly correlated with a conventional reference assay (R(2) = 0.994; P < .001). In the single-center study, the differences in the AVS success rates associated with semiquantitative and quantitative QCAs were not significant (both 93%); however, the success rates were significantly higher than the rate of successful AVS performed without using the QCA (63%; P < .001). The success rate of AVS performed in the multicenter study was 94% for the semiquantitative QCA, which was significantly higher than the rate for the patients without QCA (60%; P < .001).
Conclusions: Our novel QCA was rapidly and easily performed at the point of care and improved the rate of successful AVS.
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